Music Reviews
On The Way Down by Ryan Cabrera
On The Way Down by Ryan Cabrera is about this guy thanking this girl who saves him when he is feeling super down. This girl helped him see that life is good on the out side and the inside if he just looks and what made him see that …
Kelly Clarkson ” The Trouble With Love Is”. A Song
Kelly Clarkson’s ” The Trouble With Love” has to be one of my favorite all time songs. I heard if for the first time several days ago and have not been able to get it out of my mind. It is one of those songs that is just so …
Epiphone Les Paul Special 2 guitar
I love to play my guitars everyday and I could play all day long. I just can’t live without my guitars. I am doing a review on the Les Paul Special 2. This guitar is $150 at Guitar Center. To be honest, the Special 2 is a good guitar …
Teenager of the Year, 1994 Album by Frank Black
I am very happy that I had a chance to come across this fantastic record in my life. I feel that if I had never heard this record my life would have been less complete. This album is really good. The songs on this album are really special.
I came …
Massive Attack with Martina Topley Bird May 29 @ Malkin Bowl
After aimlessly traipsing through the back of muddy woodland Stanley Park for just under two hours one would surmise that standing in the rain another few hours listening to a band whose album 100th Window mostly contained minimal loops and a dark delve into classical music, would be torturous. …
The Clash London Calling album
London Calling is the album where The Clash broke the shackles of the punk rock genre and launched themselves as the greatest rock n roll band of a generation and one of the greatest of all time.
Though released in 1979 in the UK and 1980 in the USA, the …
“Initium” by Samhain (LP, 1984)
After spending years with the Misfits writing and recording some of the greatest punk to ever be pressed, Glenn Danzig formed his second band, Samhain. Their debut record, “Initium”, was released in 1984, and it showed that despite the Misfits officially disbanding, Danzig was determined to continue putting out …
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (Side I)
Overview —“ Side I of Rubber Soul, The Beatles’ sixth studio album, definitely showcases quite a bit of development as songwriters, from both Lennon and McCartney, and well even Harrison I suppose. McCartney’s contributions to this side of the record seemed as if they’d be lighthearted at first, just …
Aaliyah - Aaliyah Album
The self titled album named Aaliyah by Aaliyah was released to the public in July of 2001. Much anticipated, it came out and it didn’t disappoint me in the least. Today, you can still hear her wonderful music still being aired on the airwaves all over the world. Listed …
The Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel
Overview - Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel, the seventh album by The Grateful Dead, is an album that’s a lot more upbeat and energetic than their past three efforts: Wake Of The Flood, American Beauty, and Workingman’s Dead. On Wake Of The Flood, you could tell that the …
Bob Dylan - Masters Of War (Song)
Masters Of War is one of the earlier tracks on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and I still remember this as being the first Bob Dylan song to truly catch my attention and get me into his songwriting. I remember that I had heard some of Dylan’s music, mostly just …
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue (1994)
“No Need To Argue” was a natural evolution from their previous album. The Cranberries recreated exactly what they’ve achieved on “Everybody ” except they did it on a different scale. Stronger, angrier, longer, the album has that self-confidence “Everybody ” lacked. Supposedly this mixture was the one which rocketed …
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold is the band Avenged Sevenfold’s 5th album, and is obviously self-titled. It is a great album with very little screaming, and extremely skillful guitar solos. Sadly, some songs on the album, like “A Little Piece of Heaven” are incredibly messed up, and really have no musical value …
The Beatles - Martha My Dear (Song)
Martha My Dear is a song by The Beatles which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The White Album. The track starts off with a nice piano rhythm which has a very playful and lighthearted sound in my opinion, a sound which goes with McCartney’s voice I’d …
Cradle Of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein
Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein is a 1996 E.P. by the black metal band Cradle of filth. This was released on cacophonous records to fulfill the band contractual obligation. This is the band’s second release, it is better then the previous album in some ways, the vocals are …
Kill at Will: Ice Cube CD
Wow what can I say this Kill at Will album by Ice Cube was very violent! He was very pissed, and he spoke his mind on this album. Kill at Will has very explicit lyrics, and he is very violent on the album. This is a great album to …
Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
Overview —“ (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth is the fifth song on the first album released by Metallica which strikes me as an extremely strange move to even include this song on their debut record. For those of you who don’t know what this track is, this will become very clear …
Love You More - JLS - Single
The fact that JLS were chosen to do the Children In Need Song for 2010 shows how popular they have become. I think it was a lovely type of ballad that they did and another example that they have more than one string to their bow. It’s also easy …
Let It Be a Secret - Biarlah Rahsia by Siti Nurhaliza
I could be listening to Let It Be a Secret - Biarlah Rahsia by Siti Nurhaliza for numerous times and still am not bored with it. This song is very melodramatic, very sad, poignant at its best and sung by the ever so popular Malaysian top singer, Siti Nurhaliza. …
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - EXP (Song)
EXP is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which appears on the album Axis: Bold As Love. EXP opens up this record and starts off with a very brief guitar bit which is basically the same thing as Stone Free. The song then quickly shifts into a sort …
Waiting All My Life (Single)- Rascal Flatts
There is one word that describes this song perfectly: beautiful. I do not use that term if I do not mean it, and this song is just an incredible piece of music. Rascal Flatts has so many hits, I feel like this one is always forgotten, but I, myself …
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Overview —“ Surfing With The Alien, the second album released by Joe Satriani, is another of Satriani’s albums to be completely instrumental and driven primarily by his guitar work. One thing that I always liked about Satriani is that he wasn’t really one of the shredders who just played …
Cage The Elephant - Judas (Song)
Judas is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up with the youthful energy of the band led by a distorted guitar before giving way to the vocal line and the instrumentation unfortunately seems to fade off into the background. …
Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning
‘Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning’ is a song by Alan Jackson about 911. It is a sad song that basically ask what each of us, what we were doing when the world trade centers, pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania happened. It reminds us …
The Velvet Underground - She’s My Best Friend (Song)
She’s My Best Friend is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their record VU. The track starts off with a traditional rock and roll rhythm with Doug Yule coming in with the lead vocals of the track with a decent melody but he seems to sort …
Lenny Kravitz (musician)
The first time I heard of the rockstar Lenny Kravitz was a couple years ago when I was in in my early years of high school. That was in the early two thousands, and I immediately feel in love with his number one hit at the time, “Again”. At …
Animal Collective - Daffy Duck (Song)
Daffy Duck is a song by Animal Collective and is the seventh song on their album Feels. I will mention right now that Daffy Duck is the second longest track on the record, clocking in at just over seven and a half minutes. Though Animal Collective typically had problems …
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Evisceration Plague is the band’s 11th full length album, released on February 3 of 2009, the album features producer Erik Rutan and was released on Metal Blade Records. The overall feel of the album if extremely heavy, if you know the band very well you will know they usually …
Feel that fire by Dierks Bentley
Feel that fire by Dierks Bentley is a song that is beautiful in a lot of ways because it talks about how this guy knows that his girl needs to feel that fire. This song mainly talks about this one girl and what she wants but in my opinion …
Eminem-Encore CD
Eminem returns in fine form with his fourth CD. “Just Lose It” was the first big single, followed by “A** Like That” and they showed off Eminem’s playful side with jokes about celebrities and silly lyrics. I have to say that there were a few songs on …
Shinedown Leave A Whsiper
Shinedown made their debut back in 2003 with an impressive album titled “Leave A Whisper”.The album is a unique journey into the heart of four musicians who blend their creative outlook, philosophy, and positive message into an unrelenting melody.Rarely, does a band come along that has the power to …
Pissed Jeans : King Of Jeans
In this third album, Pissed Jeans, a band who came from Pennsylvania, USA, still looks consistent. If you like the type of punk rock offered Jesus Lizard or maybe Butthole Surfers, you will really enjoy the Pissed Jeans. If not, you will feel lost, because the King Of Jeans …
Animal Collective - Runnin The Round Ball (Song)
Runnin The Round Ball is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second release Danse Manatee. Opening up with a building introduction which carries on throughout the entire track, the sound is interesting from the start and I only hope that the band do not disappoint by …
Polaris - Ivy Boy (Song)
Ivy Boy is a song off of the album “Music of The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Polaris was a side project involving members from the band Miracle Legion, writing songs for the hit show at the time “The Adventures of Pete and Pete”. Among these songs I find …
N-Sync - I’ll Never Stop - Single
N-Sync a boy band from America that suddenly seemed to be huge over in the U.K. I think one of the reasons they were successful was their more street appearance and the fact their their love songs seemed far more edgy and upbeat.
This was the case with I’ll Never …
Yamaha Stage Custon drums
I purchased a Yamaha Stage Custom drum set several years ago when I began touring nationally in my band. I Purchased the 5 piece set. I have taken this drum kit all over the country and it has stood up to all of the traveling. It stays in tune …
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Overview - Led Zeppelin IV, largely considered the greatest rock album of all time, takes a blend of everything Zeppelin had done up to that point - electric, fast, acoustic, ballad, epic, long, short, simple, complex, energetic, and mellow, and merges it into a single record. As you can …
Weezer - Only In Dreams (song)
“Only In Dreams” is the closing song off of the fantastic debut album of Weezer. This such a good song to close an equally good album. To my knowledge it is also the longest song ever recorded by Weezer, although I admit I haven’t really dabbled into any of …
Justin Bieber - Sorry (Song )
It seems like the world is now ready for the new Justin Bieber. I was not completely sold on his previous discography because he sounded like a try-hard twink trying to make it big. Of course he made it big, thanks to the fan girls all around the world …
System Of A Down - Sugar (Song)
Sugar is a track which appears on System Of A Down’s self-titled debut record. I believe that among the songs on that first record, Sugar is probably the most well known, along with War, because of the music videos made for them. Sugar certainly demonstrates System Of A Down …
If I Were A Boy video (Beyonce)
I have never really been a huge fan of Beyonce’s. But I am at least glad that she is breaking from some of that choppy singing that she does. In this song, she muses over the possibility of what it would be like if she were the …
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Side III)
Overview - Side III of The Wall is, in my opinion, the strongest side of the entire album. The one thing about this side of the album is that it’s extremely dominated by Waters on lead vocals whereas on the previous sides it was at least a slightly better …
More Dirty Dancing soundtrack CD
There was so much great music from the hit flick, Dirty Dancing, that a second album was released to include the great songs that they didn’t have room for on the main CD. Thus, we were treated to the More Dirty Dancing soundtrack CD, which begins with an …
Rhythm and Voice of Cultural CD Music
I recently just bought 2 CDs, which have a cultural mix to it, each costing between $19 - $23. I love different cultures and traditions all around the world, and it includes African and Latin music. The first CD is called Acoustic Africa. This CD features …
Take Me Home Country Roads
Take Me Home Country Roads is one of John Denver’s many top hits. It is a song about him growing up in hills of West Virginia as a boy. It talks about how he remembers so many things and how they change over the years. That if he listens …
Jefferson Airplane - Crazy Miranda (Song)
Crazy Miranda is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on the album Bark. The track starts out in a very melancholy fashion with a piano primarily leading the track with Grace Slick joining in with the vocals. I’m not exactly sure, but to be completely honest, I think …
A-punk by Vampire Weekend Music Video
Random yet consistent. Any fans of Vampire Weekend know that these two words describe the band pretty well. They also describe the A-punk music video. Even though the video is very simple and has a low production value it can’t help but grab your attention and …
Cult TV & Film Themes
Cult TV & Film Themes is a CD compilation of TV and film soundtracks/films. The CD is copyright of Union Square Music Ltd. The songs are mostly orchestral jazz, and funk and pop songs from the 60s and 70s. Some of the songs are the original from the film/TV …
Ed Sheeran and Beyonce - Perfect Duet (2017 Song)
Ed Sheeran, one of the most popular pop star right now, teamed up with Beyonce, another popular singer today, to deliver what might be an apt title for a song: “Perfect Duet”.
Even though the song was released on March 2017, it was solo. This new one is freshen up …
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